Panama City
Panama City is the capital of Panama. Sitting on the Pacific end of the Panama canal it has long been a point of transit for travelers and freight and these days Tocumen Airport has become the busiest in Central America and one of Latin America's most important transfer hubs.Photo: Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Panama Museum of Contemporary Art
Photo: MACPanama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, popularly called MAC Panamá, is the only museum of contemporary art that exists in Panama.
Localities in the Area
Balboa
Balboa is separated from Panama City by the Cerro Ancon, one of Panama City's skyline landmarks.Casco Viejo
Photo: Melpanama, Public domain.
Casco Antiguo, also known as Casco Viejo or San Felipe, is the historic district of Panama City.
Panama City
- Type: City with 881,000 residents
- Description: capital of Panama
- Categories: capital city, metropolitan area, big city and locality
- Location: Corregimiento Bella Vista, Panamá District, Panamá Province, Central Panama, Panama, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.9714° or 8° 58' 17" northLongitude
-79.5342° or 79° 32' 3" westPopulation
881,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
PTYUnited Nations Location Code
PA PTYOpen Location Code
67W2XFC8+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1242998122OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3703443Wikidata ID
Q3306Panama City Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Banda Panama
- Afrikaans: Panama-stad
- Afrikaans: Panamastad
- Albanian: Qyteti i Panamasë
- Amharic: ፓናማ ከተማ
- Arabic: Syudad han Panamá
- Arabic: بنما
- Arabic: مدينة بنما
- Aragonese: Ciudat de Panamá
- Aragonese: Ziudá de Panamá
- Armenian: Պանամա
- Asturian: Ciudá de Panamá
- Avaric: Panamá
- Aymara: Panama marka
- Azerbaijani: Panama
- Azerbaijani: Panama şəhəri
- Balinese: Kota Panama
- Basque: Panama Hiria
- Belarusian: Панама
- Bengali: পানামা শহর
- Bengali: পানামা সিটি
- Bosnian: Panama City
- Breton: Ciudad de Panamá
- Bulgarian: Панама
- Catalan: Ciutat de Panamà
- Cebuano: Panamá (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Panamá
- Central Kurdish: پەنەما سیتی
- Chechen: Панама (гӀала)
- Chechen: Панама
- Chinese: Panama Chhī
- Chinese: 巴拿馬城
- Chinese: 巴拿马城
- Croatian: Panamá
- Czech: Ciudad de Panamá
- Czech: Panamá
- Danish: Panama City
- Dotyali: पानामा सिटी
- Dutch: Panama-Stad
- Dutch: Panama-stad
- Egyptian Arabic: پاناما سيتى
- English: Ciudad de Panama
- English: Ciudad de Panamá
- English: Panama
- English: Panamá
- Esperanto: Panamurbo
- Estonian: Panamá
- Fiji Hindi: Panama City
- Finnish: Panamá
- French: Panama
- French: Panamá
- Galician: Cidade de Panamá
- Georgian: პანამა
- German: Panama-Stadt
- German: Panama City
- German: Panamá
- Greek: Πόλη του Παναμά
- Guarani: Táva Panama
- Gujarati: પનામા શહેર
- Gujarati: પનામા સિટી
- Haitian: Panama
- Hakka Chinese: Panama Sṳ
- Hausa: Panama (birni)
- Hausa: Panama
- Hausa: Panama Sṳ
- Hebrew: פנמה סיטי
- Hindi: पनामा शहर
- Hindi: पनामा सिटी
- Hungarian: Panamaváros
- Icelandic: Panamaborg
- Ido: Panama-Urbo
- Indonesian: Kota Panama
- Interlingue: Panamá Cité
- Irish: Panamá
- Italian: Panama
- Italian: Panama City
- Italian: Panamà
- Italian: Panamá
- Japanese: パナマシティ
- Japanese: パナマ・シティ
- Japanese: パナマ市
- Kannada: ಪನಾಮ ನಗರ
- Kazakh: Панама
- Kazakh: Панама қаласы
- Kikuyu: Panama City
- Kirghiz: Панама шаары
- Korean: 빠나마 시
- Korean: 시우다드 데 파나마
- Korean: 파나마 시
- Korean: 파나마시티
- Kotava: Panamá (widava)
- Kurdish: Panama
- Ladino: Sivdad de Panama
- Latin: Urbs Panamensis
- Latvian: Panama
- Ligurian: Çittæ do Panamá
- Lingua Franca Nova: Panama
- Lithuanian: Panama
- Livvi: Panama
- Lombard: Cità de Panama
- Luxembourgish: Panama
- Macedonian: Панама
- Malay: Kota Panama
- Malay: Panama City
- Malayalam: പനാമ സിറ്റി
- Maltese: Belt tal-Panama
- Manx: Caayr ny Panamaa
- Manx: Caayr y Phanamaa
- Marathi: पनामा शहर
- Marathi: पनामा सिटी
- Min Dong Chinese: Panama Chê
- Min Nan Chinese: Panama Chhī
- Mingrelian: პანამა (ნოღა)
- Mingrelian: პანამა
- Mongolian: Панама Хот
- Moroccan Arabic: پاناما سيتي
- Northern Luri: پاناماسیتی
- Northern Sami: Panama gávpot
- Norwegian: Panama by
- Norwegian Bokmål: Panama by
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Panama by
- Novial: Panama Urbe
- Occitan (post 1500): Ciutat de Panamà
- Ossetian: Панамæ
- Panjabi: ਪਨਾਮਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ
- Papiamento: Siudad di Panama
- Persian: شهر پاناما
- Persian: پاناماسیتی
- Persian: پاناما سیتی
- Piemontese: Sità ëd Panamà
- Polish: Panama
- Polish: Panama City
- Polish: Panamá
- Portuguese: Cidade do Panamá
- Portuguese: Ciudad de Panamá
- Portuguese: Panamá
- Quechua: Panama llaqta
- Romanian: Ciudad de Panamá
- Romanian: Panama City
- Russian: Панама-Сити
- Russian: Панама
- Samoan: Aai o Panama
- Santali: ᱯᱟᱱᱟᱢᱟ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ
- Sardinian: Panamá (tzitade)
- Sardinian: Panamá
- Saterfriesisch: Panama-Stääd
- Scots: Panama Ceety
- Scottish Gaelic: Panama
- Serbian: Panama
- Serbian: Панама
- Serbo-Croatian: Panamá
- Shona: Panama City
- Silesian: Panama
- Sinhala: පැනමා නගරය
- Slovak: Panama
- Slovenian: Panama
- Slovenian: Panama City
- Spanish: Ciudad de Panama
- Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá
- Spanish: Panama
- Spanish: Panamá
- Swahili: Panama City
- Swedish: Panama City
- Swiss German: Panama-Stadt
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Panama
- Tajik: Панама (шаҳр)
- Tajik: Панама
- Tajik: Шаҳри Панама
- Tamil: பனாமா நகரம்
- Tamil: பனாமா ஸிடி
- Tatar: Панама (шәһәр)
- Tatar: Панама
- Telugu: పనామా నగరం
- Thai: ปานามาซิตี
- Tibetan: པ་ན་མ།
- Tosk Albanian: Panama-Stadt
- Turkish: Panama
- Turkish: Panama Şehri
- Turkmen: Panama
- Udmurt: Панама кар
- Ukrainian: Панама
- Urdu: پاناما شہر
- Uzbek: Panama
- Uzbek: Panama shahri
- Venetian: Panama
- Veps: Panam
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Panama
- Waray (Philippines): Syudad han Panamá
- Welsh: Dinas Panama
- Welsh: Panamá
- Western Frisian: Panama-Stêd
- Western Panjabi: پانامہ شہر
- Wu Chinese: 巴拿马城
- Yakut: Панаама
- Yakut: Панама
- Yiddish: פאנאמא־שטאט
- Yoruba: Ìlú Panamá
- Yue Chinese: 巴拿馬城
- Panama-urbo
- Āltepētl Panama
- פאנאמא-שטאט
Other Places Named Panama City
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- CurundúNeighbourhood
- La CrestaNeighbourhood
- MarbellaNeighbourhood
- Bella VistaQuarter
- Barrio ChinoNeighbourhood
- Santa AnaHamlet
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Panama City. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.